I installed the whole triumvirate of codecs including the naughties – gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-ugly. I also installed mplayer and vlc. Mplayer and VLC can play it. Gstreamer can’t. It says it’s DIVX. :-/ any ideas?

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I guess GStreamer does not understand the *container*, so is not about the codecs. The video coded may be DIVX, and GStreamer pugins may understand that codec, but is no help if the player can’t open the container.

Apparently a container format used by some HDD recorders or similar. Technically it looks like AVI container with different starting bytes (replacing initial four bytes “AVF0″ with “RIFF” results in valid AVI file).

I’m trying to build a usability lab using it! The problem is though, it’s supposed to be giving me quad-screen split videos but instead it’s giving me the individual videos in this bizarre format, and the tools they’ve given me to work with the video file are Windows-only and they crash when I try to run them in Wine. I started giving them a shot with various video players in Linux and was happy to find they play, but I don’t get the quad-screen video. :(

So I was thinking, it might be possible to reconstruct the 4 videos into 1 larger quad screen video using gstreamer pipelines, but I needed to get it to play in gstreamer first. :)